[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR35.404]

[Page 571]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 35--MEDICAL USE OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart G--Sources for Brachytherapy
 
Sec. 35.404  Release of patients or human research subjects treated with temporary implants.

    (a) Immediately after removing the last temporary implant source 
from a patient or a human research subject, the licensee shall make a 
radiation survey of the patient or the human research subject with a 
radiation detection survey instrument to confirm that all sources have 
been removed. The licensee may not release from confinement for medical 
care a patient or a human research subject treated by temporary implant 
until all sources have been removed.
    (b) A licensee shall retain a record of patient or human research 
subject surveys for three years. Each record must include the date of 
the survey, the name of the patient or the human research subject, the 
dose rate from the patient or the human research subject expressed as 
millirem per hour and measured at 1 meter from the patient or the human 
research subject, the survey instrument used, and the initials of the 
individual who made the survey.

[59 FR 61785, Dec. 2, 1994]